Artists' Lamps + Selections from Artist Book Week

BravinLee is pleased to present Glow, a group exhibition of artist-made lamps and light sculptures. Light as an artist medium is formal, spatial, sculptural, tangible, evocative, poetic, ephemeral, metaphorical, mesmerizing and hopeful. In the hands of artists, light takes on an identity as a component of sculptural form.

Randy Polumbo, Beckoning, 2023, 36 x 36 x 42 inches, homegrown, beaded mycelium hive trimmed with natural quartz crystals; hand-blown glass micro “planets” with hand-silvered pistils and stamens; “planets” composed of reflective highway sign and glass beads; welded aluminum; LED lights and electronics.

Artist Book Vitrine: Marianne Petit

Marianne Petit’s 21st Century Nursery Rhymes is a collection of iconic poems and images adapted for our times. Selected nursery rhymes include Georgie Porgie, Diddle Diddle Dumpling, Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, Jack Be Nimble, The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, Jack Spratt, and Humpty Dumpty. The stories are contained in a single-volume limited edition accordion pop-up book, with a companion LCD book, which features an animated version of each story.

21 Century Nursery Rhymes has been exhibited at numerous book and art fairs, including Art on Paper, the LA Art Show, New York Fine Press Fair, and the Tropic Bound Artists’ Book Fair. It can be found in several University and Library Collections. Petit’s artwork has appeared internationally in festivals and exhibitions, been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, Make, and Wired, and broadcast on IFC and PBS.

Marianne Petit, *21st Century Nursery Rhymes*, accordion pop-up book, 8 x 10 inches closed, 80 x 10 inches open, edition of 5 (book + LCD screen)

Project Room: Selections from our first annual Artist Book Week, including: Brian Block, William Eric Brown, Jinghong Chen, Beatrice Coron, Ben Denzer, Peter Dudek, Dahlia Elsayed, Douglas Florian, Lucy Charlesworth Freeman, Robert Gunderman, Candace Hicks, George Horner, Jonathan Lasker, Jennifer O’Connell, Jason Polan, Sara Press, Charles Ritchie, Derek Stroup, Martin Wilner, Amy Wilson, & Janine Wong.

+ two new paintings by Tracy Grayson.

Spring/Break Art Show

Karin Bravin presents Rise, a site-specific work by Courtney Puckett, for the 12^th edition of Spring/Break Art Show, 625 Madison Avenue 10^th Floor, September 6 -September 11.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/springbreak-art-show-12813445625